Daryl Gregory famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.
-- Daryl Gregory

#Aunt #Parent #Substitutes
Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.
-- Daryl Gregory

#Essence #Fiction #Belief
The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy and relief. Publishing one story was all that I ever wanted, or expected. Everything since then - award nominations, getting into best-of anthologies, meeting my idols at conventions, drinking with my idols at conventions - has been wonderful, but it's all gravy.
-- Daryl Gregory

#Drinking #Joy #Wonderful
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known only by collectors, and finally a rediscovered artist who is finally recognized as a creative giant misunderstood in his own time. Then forgotten again. But if I get removed from the list, it'll probably be because there are just too many damn good writers out there, and any poll of some assortment of editors is going to come up with an equally valid, equally varied list.
-- Daryl Gregory

#Fall #Writing #Artist
God gets the easiest performance reviews.
-- Daryl Gregory

#Reviews #Performance Review #Performances
Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.
-- Daryl Gregory

#Scary #Process

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.
I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.
I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to you and they would say, "Excuse me," and you'd barely hear them, and you'd turn around and you'd say, "Yeah, how you doing?" and they'd say, "I'm really sorry to bother you, but my aunt is a big fan of yours, and would you mind terribly if you'd just sign this paper," or whatever it is, and you're happy to do that, and the people are pretty nice about it.
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.
There's no substitute for guts.

Daryl Gregory famous quotes

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